2 Corinthians 5:14–21 · BSB
5:14
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
5:15
And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
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5:16
So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
5:18
All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
5:19
that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
5:20
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
5:21
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
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